In the debate which followed, Mr. Dillwyn stated that he
in- tended to move, in relation to the second resolution, that the rule adopted be adopted as a Sessional Order only, not as a Standing Order, till the experiment had been fairly tried ; and pointed out that leading members of the present Government had shown themselves almost as skilful adepts at protracted resistance to the will of the majority in 1870, as the most redoubtable of the Irish Members. Mr. Sullivan gave a very amusing account of the interminable divisions taken not only on the Clerical Disabilities Bill, but on the Army Purchase Bill and the Ballot Bill, by members of the present Government, amongst whom the Chairman of Committees, Mr. Raikes,—who is to have the power now of putting down obstruction with a high hand,—was always pro- minent ; and after some passages of arms between Mr. Chap- lin and Sir W. Harcourt, the debate was ultimately adjourned.
